Question follow-through · 38528
Ambulance Services: South West
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to reduce ambulance waiting times in (a) the South West of England and (b) Gloucestershire.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 14 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 18 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 19 Mar 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
14 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to reduce ambulance waiting times in (a) the South West of England and (b) Gloucestershire.
18 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Mar 2025
Answer published
Ambulance services in Gloucestershire and the South West are provided by the South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust, with responsibility for commissioning the services a matter for the local NHS Gloucestershire Integrated Care Board (ICB). S...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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